Joe Pelonio
06-14-2007, 3:53 PM
I wish I'd brought my camera. I was just doing lettering on a couple of vans for a roofing company that happens to be located next to a wood recycler in Redmond, WA.
I almost fell over when I saw what they were grinding up there. And I'm not even a turner. Apparently when there's construction all of the trees removed from the site are brought there. There was a pile (guessing now) 300' x 100' x 40' high, with stumps, hunks of 36" caliper logs, and visible burls showing here and there. They were mostly maple, Western Red Cedar, Douglas Fir, and Western Hemlock, and a few Madrona. Mixed in were old pallets and demolition lumber.
Yes, I asked, and no you can't go get the burls. Way too much liability, he told me, and not worth the trouble to save and sell it. He gets paid to take away the wood, then gets paid again, to deliver the ground up wood later
to be made into products like particle board.
I almost fell over when I saw what they were grinding up there. And I'm not even a turner. Apparently when there's construction all of the trees removed from the site are brought there. There was a pile (guessing now) 300' x 100' x 40' high, with stumps, hunks of 36" caliper logs, and visible burls showing here and there. They were mostly maple, Western Red Cedar, Douglas Fir, and Western Hemlock, and a few Madrona. Mixed in were old pallets and demolition lumber.
Yes, I asked, and no you can't go get the burls. Way too much liability, he told me, and not worth the trouble to save and sell it. He gets paid to take away the wood, then gets paid again, to deliver the ground up wood later
to be made into products like particle board.